As We Forgive

Chapter 15 Part One - Herb Fitch Based on The Thunder of Silence by Joel S. Goldsmith
This is a story which you may never have heard before, it is somewhat like a fire, with the oxygen and the wood, and the sulfur the fire begins, and as long as you dont run out of oxygen and wood the fire continues, and the flame is ever new. That ever new flame, is precisely the Soul bodys way of ever being new. There is no second when it is the same, and our human bodies which have cells that are ever changing, are a very pale imitations of this constant newness of the real body. In this real body, this body of fire, we are completely under the law of Spirit, Spirit being itself, living itself, ever being new, ever being born, and human birth and human death, which flow slowly into time, are the imitations of that ever birth of the Spiritual body, which never stops, it is perpetual unto everlasting. As we look out upon the forms that we call bodies, we are looking out upon a cosmic imitation, and the way this imitation comes about brings us to a level called mortal mind, and then to a level called individual mortal mind. And this individual mortal mind, in which we think we are born, now confines us into its very limited imitation of all that is. And one of the ways it confines us, is that it looks out upon its fellow man and being unable to know the Infinite, it judges the finite, and so it finally begins to condemn, to hold in bondage to all manner of ways, to look out upon, not the creation, but the creature. And many gaps occur in its judgments because it has no way of evaluating the truth. Now there is a hard core to this work, that must be understood, for all time. A cause so important, that we must analyze it quite carefully. It is the story of the material form, the material sense, the 1

sense mind, the sense form, the images, the changing pictures of our world. We know the Master taught us not to hold anyone in condemnation, in fact, to forgive seventy times seven, and it would seem that such a simple statement would be possible for us to be obedient to, to forgive seventy times seven, to forgive those who have sinned against us, to forgive those who have in some way imprisoned us in false belief, to forgive others their malice, their jealousy, their resentment. The whole gamut of human prejudices, anger, envy, greed, lust, desire, all of this is but a camouflage to something quite deeper, and there are many many reasons why we are taught to forgive. So that if we come to the altar with our gift, if there is ought in this world that we have still to forgive, we must leave our gift at the altar and return to forgive that person fir have to know what this altar is, you have to know that it is the living I of your being, that when you have sought the living I of your being and could not find it, it was because you had not, forgiven this universe, you have not looked out upon the world to forgive nations, cities, states, communities, race, religion, color, creed, family, relatives, those who are closest to you, and above all yourself. This complete and total forgiveness of the universe has many ulterior purposes. And first and foremost of them, is the realization that when you have someone to forgive or someone to be forgiven, or when you seek forgiveness for yourself, always you are breaking Divine law. Who are you going to forgive? And who is going to forgive you? Always the belief that there is someone other than God, brings us into a state of consciousness in which we are holding the other person in some form of judgment or they are holding us in some form of judgment. But there are no separated beings, there is no me and you, there is no him 2

and her, there is only the one Spirit. And as you forgive, you are coming back into obedience to Divine law which says there is only the One. You are recognizing that the person out there whom you have held in judgment isnt there, Spirit is. You are recognizing that there could never be a reality to any form of human emotion, any form of human judgment, any form of human criticism, any form of human resentment, for who is out there? In your forgiveness you are rising above the personal sense of self, you are ascending above the sense of mind, which sees separate individuals. You are accepting that because there is only one, my forgiveness is the recognition of that one, and if I cannot ascend to that level of consciousness, where I forgive because I recognize only one, then I am recognizing more than one, and I am in violation of Divine law which says God is all. And so one of the main reasons for forgiveness, is not to release an individual to go and offend again, not to say to someone who has offended you, Here, do it again, I forgive you, and if you do it again, Ill forgive you again, but rather, the purpose of forgiveness is to lift you to the consciousness, that will not violate the law of oneness; it is for your benefit that you forgive the other person, and there are many many more reasons. What are you forgiving the other person for? So hes offended you, but has he? Or has he offended your sense being, your sense mind, your false sense of self? How does an individual in this world offend you, if you are in your Identity? If you can be offended then you are out of your true Identity, youre not in the conscious awareness that I am the living Spirit of the Father. And it is for that reason alone that you feel the offense. And so, there is no one there who has offended, because Spirit is there, and there is no one where you are to be offended because Spirit is there. And therefore in true forgiveness you are recognizing no separation between you and your offender, but 3

rather Spiritual oneness as the only reality there. You are seeing his and your identity through the eyes of truth, and that is the purpose of forgiveness. Now we all have a mind which strikes back, we retaliate, we feel offended quite easily. Our back goes up when someone does something wed rather they didnt do. And this mind is not a mind at all. We discover that it is a sense of mind, it is a concept we entertain about Divine mind but it is not Divine mind. It is the imitation mind which is really a sense of mind through which we view the universe around us. And this sense of mind is always looking at the Infinite, but never can see the Infinite; it can only see the finite. So as it looks out upon Infinite Love, what does it see? It sees its fractional imitation of infinite love as a very pale form of human, finite, fractional, love, and there is a great big gap, between the Infinite Love and the fractional human love, and this gap becomes the opposite, called hate. It looks out at truth, which is infinite but it cannot see that which is infinite, it forms a finite concept of truth, again leaving a great big gap, and that gap becomes the opposite, which is, lie. And so we find the opposites come into being because the limited, finite human mind, can not encompass the Infinite, and that which it cannot encompass becomes no mans land. It becomes the very opposite of the quality which the finite mind is imitating, and so we walk in these opposites. They are not real, the lie is no more real that our sense of the truth. So were looking out of a mind which is incapable of encompassing the whole truth, and any fraction thereof is definitely going to leave us submerged in a world of good and of evil. Somehow this sense mind is seeing someone it wants to repay for an injustice, or someone it seeks revenge against, or someone it would like to have punished in someway so that that person could suffer just as I have suffered. 4

But the Master will not let us live in that sense mind, and so very carefully, he points out to us the little traps and barriers, which we use to blockade ourselves, from the very freedom that we seek. It is not only our malice, our jealousy, our envy that we must come over. We must come over the jealousy, malice and envy of the other fellow. Now lets look at jealousy, you are jealous of Jim and Jim is jealous of Mary and Mary is jealous of Lucille, but what are they jealous about? Well, jealousy is based on the fact that someone has something that you would like to have, and again you see if someone has something that you would like to have, then you have seen that person in a false identity. That person is Spirit, you are Spirit, now what can Spirit there have, that Spirit here doesnt have? And so jealousy is based upon false identification in two places; the false identification of yourself, as not being Spirit, the false identification of the person with whom we are jealous, as not being Spirit. And again the Master says come above jealousy, because when you know that he is Spirit and you are Spirit and that all that the Father hath is embodied in Spirit, theres no one on this earth who has anything that you do not have. Your problem is not to get what that person has, but to seek ye first, youre Spiritual Identity, in which the Father says, All that I have is thine. And so all of these little traps, all around us, are like little lakes on a golf course, acting as obstacles to our getting to the final place that we are seeking to go. And we have to see all of these traps so that we can avoid them. The sense mind looks out on a world that it doesnt understand. Now lets get to the core of it, lets see how we are able to become aware of objects around us. We all have a very scientific attitude there. We would probably agree with science, that our little nerve centers carry the messages of our senses back to the brain, and this would 5

appear to be the way we see things, feel things, touch things, hear things. Those five senses reaching out into the world stimulated by the material world around us, and then carrying their impressions back through the nerve centers, to the brain, and we become aware of things. And yet, the Master did not see or hear that way. He didnt see the world through his physical eyes, or hear it from his physical ears. He even knew that those out there, who think they are hearing it or seeing it that way, are doing nothing of that kind at all. He had been taught from within, about the real way that people were becoming aware of things around them. He knew the senses were not reaching out for anything, because there is no life in the material world to stimulate the senses. He knew the senses were not God created. He knew that the human body was not God created. He knew that there was no possibility for matter, which is not Gods creation, to be intelligent about anything. He knew there was no life and no intelligence in that so called substance, called matter, and that the senses could not be reporting any form of intelligence in that matter, because the senses themselves were but images in space. That is what we think we are doing, but he had located that suppositional opposite of the Divine mind, which Paul probably referred to when he spoke about the, glass darkly. He had located that echo of shadow mind, and he knew that it was only this shadow mind. Again, just as we, try to encompass Infinite Truth but cannot, Infinite Love but cannot, this echo shadow mind tries to encompass the infinity of God, but it cannot, and in its inability to encompass the allness, it leaves a gap. And that gap becomes the very opposite of that which it is trying to imitate, giving us the dual world; the positive and the negative, the good and the bad, and that is where the illusion begins. Thats where the hypnosis starts. 6

And now this hypnosis spreads. This hypnosis of a shadow mind which cannot find truth, but can only imitate a portion of it, individualizes. It individualizes as what we call our mind, it individualizes as what we call our senses, and through that mind and through those senses, it delivers its impressions, of the universe. Always dual impressions, good ones and bad ones, but never real ones, only impressions. And then within yourself, your senses pick up these impressions and broadcast them out. They dont take them from the outer and bring them in; they take them from within and bring them out. We are accomplices to the creation of a world that is not the world of God. We look out upon our sense impressions and we call them form, we call them objects, we call them matter, but they are not matter, they are our thought externalized. They are our sense mind projections into sense forms, and then we wear one of those forms and say this is me. We even give birth to babies, through the sense mind, and we also die through the sense mind. Always counterfeiting through the sense mind the eternal newness of Spirit, into our coming and going, our birth and death, our reincarnating life span, all sense mind forms. And it is in these sense mind forms that we see the images called other forms against whom we deliver our various condemnations. In our dream world, we conjure up all forms of sins, all forms of lack, all forms of omissions and commissions. But the separation only occurs between the imaged forms. The reality of your being is never separated with any individual on the face of this earth. There is no separation between any of us in our reality, the separation is in the sense mind forms, or bodies, and these separations represent our limited concept about the one continuous uninterrupted Spirit, which is the Substance of the universe.

Now, as were separated from each other, we also entertain a sense of separation from that one Spirit; were not fed by it, but it is there. And the impulse will come to you leading to It. And it is important that you be ready for that impulse, important that you obey that impulse, because these waves of impulses will come to you, each being a preliminary to the next, and if you are not obedient to the first, the second cannot happen, if youre not obedient to the second, the third cannot happen. So for example, the impulse may come to you, after much inner contemplation, that the form which you inhabit is not you. You may be startled by this realization, and you may even say, Well if this form that I inhabit is not me, Im glad to know it, maybe someday I will learn what I really am. But the impulse didnt come to you for you to think about it as happening someday, the impulse came to you as a demand, and you have to accept the impulse as a demand. It is saying, Right now, I am telling you that your form is not you, and I mean do something about it now, and if you permit this impulse to pass without doing something about it, the next impulse will not come. The Spirit is seeking an obedient response in you; to open doors one after the other. And now lets say you accept this, you must remember it wont happen until youre prepared to do something about it. Many steps wouldve preceded that moment when youre asked to do something about recognizing that you are not this form. And so well presume too, that you have now been prepared, and when it occurs you must then take the information and dwell upon it. I am not in this form, this form is not me, but what am I going to do about it? Well I must lose the consciousness that this form is me. I must move out of the consciousness that I am encased in a body, but I dont know how to do it. Nevertheless, the information did come to you from 8

within, and Spirit must have a plan to do something. You dont know what makes a tomato grow, but you do you know how to put a seed in the ground, you do know how to prepare the soil, you do know how to water it, and then the tomato grows of its own accord. Suppose you go through some activity of some kind to acknowledge the impulse from Spirit. And so now, I am making a very strenuous contemplative effort to understand how I can step out of a body consciousness, what causes my consciousness of body? The senses it seems. But Ive also learned that cosmic mind causes my consciousness of body. It activates my heart, it activates every organ of my body, it activates my senses, it causes me to feel that I am here in this place in this time. But cosmic mind is imitating Divine mind, and so I know I must consciously know, that Spirit is not confined in this body and I am that Spirit. Therefore I am as much two feet away from here, ten feet away from here, a hundred feet away from here, as I am apparently here. And then Spirit begins to give you another clue, it says, Well I didnt tell you to turn the world upside down on one impulse, but at least you acted upon it. Youre trying, and now Im going to help you just a little further. There is no place where you are not, there is no place in the universe where you are not, dwell upon that. And so that impulse comes to you to know that I am Omnipresent, I am that Spirit which is everywhere, there is no place where I am not. And now I am just a shade higher in consciousness, than in a body consciousness. And I dwell there, obedient to the impulse, which is forcing me to be absent from the body, from the sense mind, from the limited consciousness which I borrowed at first from my parents. It is forcing me up out of this borrowed

consciousness, out of the imitation consciousness, into the purity of Being. And now the days go by, and at times there is a glimpse, of another Self; the Self that doesnt walk this earth in a form, the Self that the Consciousness Itself. And It directs this form, and I am alternately living in that Consciousness, and alternately falling back into the form, into the sense mind. But at least aware that there is a Self of me, that never falls into this sense mind or into this form, and I know that I am to be resurrected into that Self. I am to be resurrected into that Self before this form perishes, and I am learning that I can rely on some Infinite Power to help me do this. My inner teacher is ever present, my inner teacher is the altar of the living I. And my inner teacher says, Come frequently to this altar, but hold nought against any man, for as I am training you to enter this altar, to find your truth, I am training every individual on this earth the same way. And because you are Spirit everywhere, it is you that I am training everywhere, you are not separated from yourself anywhere throughout the universe. Look through those false sense mind forms and see yourself. Do not divide my garment, know that you are not in that form. That form is in your sense mind. And then comes a new kind of freedom, such as few have felt; you will see the Eternal Fire of Life Itself. Only when you have made a conscious effort to step out of form, out of sense mind, out of the belief that this form is me, will the Eternal Fire of life manifest Itself in a way that cannot be described. You know when it happens that you come to a new place in consciousness, for this Fire is ever changing, ever powerful, yet ever gentle. It is a fire without a flame, it is a fire that does not burn, it is a fire that could devour all the nuclear bombs on this earth, without even noticing them, it is a fire as the light is to the 10

darkness, it is a fire as the sun beam is to a flood. For instance, if a flood comes through a city over a sunbeam, it can never bury that sunbeam, as the flood rises, the sunbeam rises with it. Always the sunbeam rests upon the water, never does the water rest upon the sunbeam, the great power of that water has no power whatsoever over the sunbeam as it dances merrily over the waves. So is this Fire. There is no power on the earth that can touch it, for every power on the earth is an imitation of it. This power, this fire, is your very life, it is a life force, it is being, it is energy, it is reality, it is substance, it is the Word. And when youre aware of it, youre not aware of yourself as form. Youre simply aware of the living Fire of being, which has absolutely, no form, no density, and yet it seems to be like molten lava, lit with electricity. And it comes to you to gently let you know, that there is a realm, where you do not live in matter, where you do not go through birth and death, where you do not go through good and evil. And this realm is a newness which is ever new, a newness that is ever new every second without interruption, it is Infinity being infinitely new and it is an experience in your Soul. A second of it is never forgotten, because you will then encounter a new level of confidence in yourself, a level that says:
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is the I that can never leave me, this is the I that goes

before me, this is the I that says, I am the resurrection and the light. This is the I that fulfills all needs, this is the altar, this is the Kingdom of God within, and this is real, this is living, this is vibrant, and It is here. It is my being here, there, and everywhere. It is all being. It is the only being This is the realm in which Jesus lived, after he was resurrected in the flesh, after the baptism of the Spirit. He not only lived in this realm, he was this realm. He was the resurrection, he was the light, he was the being, he was the eternal Fire. I am the light, and that light that he 11

was, is this Eternal Fire. This is your true being, which will communicate itself to the individual who comes into agreement that he is not in a form, he is not in a body, this body is not me, and then in response to the impulse, which tells him this truth, he pursues it, making it the important activity of his day. This is how we are lifted, by the inner teaching of the Spirit, ever communicating itself with us, not through senses, not through intercommunicating nervous systems in a form, not through sense mind, but through this divine Spiritual method, which only comes to you when you remove the barriers, of the sense mind, of the sense form, when you look out upon the world and see, that all youre looking at is made of mental material, where every object, is thought externalized. You see, we cannot merely take these facts and say, Yes I know, I agree, it isnt enough. Its what you do with these facts, and the methods you use to accept the ultimate conclusions they force upon you, so that you are moved by that inner Spirit out of the body. And that is the only way youre present with the Fire of life; white as snow. And so, a simple thing like forgiving you neighbor is not really as simple as it appears. In fact, Peter says, How often shall I forgive my neighbor, seven times? Oh no, no, seventy times seven. And seventy times seven again if necessary, because forgiveness, is not saying I forgive you. Forgiveness, Joel calls it, forgiveness never happens until there is inner grief. He is conveying the depth to which you must go in forgiveness. You must say, Well, that wrong doing wasnt a wrong doing at all, it was an image in thought, happening in one who is separated from this fire of life, this reality, this being, this divinity, this Spirit, but Spirit being all, there was no one there other than a false image. And then, just saying this, and accepting it, still is not enough. Will you completely forgive, throughout all time, past, 12

present and future? Will you forgive those who ever will in any way do ought against thee? Is there a single individual on this earth who is left not in your forgiveness? And so you see we cross out for all time, the possibility that any one on this earth can offend me. They can only offend a false concept of me. And then I must learn to forgive myself. For undoubtedly my sins of omission and commission, weigh heavily within me, and guilt complexes spring up. But I must forgive myself seventy times seven too, and I must come to a place in my consciousness where, through the knowledge of truth which makes me free, I have erased that state of consciousness which committed that original sin, whatever it may have been. And then, it isnt God who forgives me at all, and it isnt another person who forgives me. I am now in a new state of consciousness, which is incapable of committing the same error, and that new consciousness which cannot commit the error, is the ultimate purpose of all the forgiveness that Ive been going through. To be pressured out of the old consciousness of good and evil, into the new consciousness of the One, leaves me now in a place where I can sin no more. I do not have the capacity to repeat that error, and so I am now forgiven. So the Master tells us, if you wish to be forgiven your trespasses, you must forgive others their trespasses, and the reason is the same; there is only One everywhere, and as long as we persist in thinking, he can wrong, but I cant, or, I can do wrong, but he cant, were in duality. We are released from our trespasses as we see the invisible oneness of Spirit. We must never think that we can take the literal words like Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors, and keep them on the level of debts, because, if it were that simple, you would be free from debt tomorrow, youd never owe another dime to anyone,

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but they are not talking about debts, theyre talking about the great eternal mysteries. Every debt, is our walking away from the reality of Spiritual being, setting in action the law of Karma, and as we deny the fruits of being here or there, were sowing to the flesh and we reap it. We reap the falseness of our own beliefs. Now, in your forgiveness, in your recognition that there is no one on this earth but God, no one but the One Supreme Being, and that all life is that One being, you are wiping the slate clean in your consciousness, and you are removing the blockade for that Spirit. That Spirit, which you are acknowledging to be the only life in this universe, cannot enter your consciousness until you remove the barrier of thinking there is that Spirit and a sinner somewhere in this world. There cannot be the allness of God and a sinner, and a person who needs forgiveness. So ultimately, youre coming to the high rung of knowing, Why, there is nobody to forgive, and there is nobody to forgive me, only God is, then youre in Peace, then youre ready to begin the real journey, and then youre ready for the heavens to open up.

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As We Forgive
Chapter 15 Part Two Herb Fitch Based on The Thunder of Silence by Joel S. Goldsmith
When we have found not only the inner teacher, but a quality within ourselves that is responsive to the inner teacher, when we can walk in oneness with the inner teacher, we are then in the rhythm of life. The newness that unfolds to us is beyond the level of the greatest intellects of this world. That newness never enters the intellect of man, but it is ever present, and it is living, and it is all. It slowly dissolves the complete sense mind illusion of this world. You will find yourself aware that the only reason your body can move, from here to across the room, is because you exist in both places, before the body starts to move there. All that moving body is telling you is that you already existed where it came from and where it is going. Wherever your body moves, you have already been there, and that is the reason your body can move there; you are becoming slowly conscious of yourself as being everywhere that the body goes. When you walk from here to there, you do not stop being here. When you get there, you are here and there, at the same time; the body is merely the outer evidence of that. And as you become aware of that, and give pause to contemplate it, you will see that the only reason you can go to the moon is because you are there now. The Spirit of you is everywhere, and as you learn the Spirit of you is everywhere, youll discover your body can go everywhere, because I have gone before you. This body now is going to play a different part in your life, a different role. Whereas before, we were interested in 15

stopping it, in patronizing it, in making it very comfortable, and tying little pink ribbons around it, making it successful, putting stripes on its arm, or ribbons and decorations around its neck, with nettles, we now see this body has a totally different purpose, than to stand before the world and say, Look at me. This body is going to be your outer evidence of your inner understanding. You will learn that you can sit back in timelessness, in spacelessness, in truth, and do things with this body. Not because youre trying to work the body, but because your Consciousness, automatically will appear outwardly as that body doing things. And as your Consciousness expands, the things that body will do out here, will be quite different than that which it is capable of doing now. When your Consciousness has expanded, that body will show forms of excellence in every thing it does. It will show forth the capacity to throw off the ills and the sufferings of this world. It will display a new kind of mentality. It will display the absence of fear. It will show forth a new kind of peace. It will show forth harmony undreamed of. All of this is predicated upon removing the consciousness from the body, from the form, from the senses, and letting it rest in its own Spiritual Identity, until the Divine impulse picks it up, and you move in that one rhythm in Consciousness, which makes the outer activity of the body almost meaningless, in the fact its so secondary, just an after effect shadow of what's happening in your Infinite Self. This is how youre being lifted into ascension, out of body consciousness. This is the ultimate purpose of all that is said in the Bible, whether it be for you to forgive, or to judge not, or pray for thine enemies. You see, no human being can do the things were being told to do by the Bible. We cant pray for our enemies, we cant forgive, we cant bless those who persecute us, and you see it's forcing us into an I that can do these things, because 'me' cannot. Were trying to do them, youve wanted to do them, and you find you cannot do them. 16

Always there is some form of anger or resentment lurking, against someone, because in our human consciousness, we cannot fulfill the commandments that were given, and that's why were given them. The only way we can fulfill them, is to rise out of our human consciousness, and as we see the impossibility of fulfilling them in our human consciousness, if our love of truth is strong enough, we will rise out of the human consciousness only for the purpose of fulfilling them, and then they will have served their purpose to lift us out of our limited sense of self. And in our love of truth, fulfilling this commandment, because we know we must, because we know this is the way, then were not living a mental life or a physical life, with its limitations. We are the living Spirit without any limitations, with no limitations whatsoever, and we are ready then, with that life which is the Fire of Eternal Life, because only in our unlimited Self can we live the eternal life. That is our path; that's his path and theyre one and the same. When Joel was ready to take this total step, and leave the form, no one was aware that he had done it, or how many times he had done it, but finally he said, I have sung my song, his work was completed. He had said everything, he had demonstrated everything that he had said, and as he put it, The only thing left on this earth for me now is just another cup of coffee and another piece of pie. Everything had been done, he had to move on. We must learn that we have to move on. We have to move on higher and higher and higher, because ultimately in our true state of Self, we will never have one second that is a duplicate of the second before. You will feel that moment of Eternal newness as this human consciousness subsides, and the word Infinity will take on a new meaning. Let's rest in meditation now, in which our sense mind plays no role. I refuse to think with it. If it wants to hang around and watch what 17

is happening, it may, but it's no part of me. The Divine Mind is all there is, and that Divine Mind is functioning here and now. It is at peace, it knows no discord, it is flowing infinitely, its perfect ideas. It is maintaining those perfect ideas. I am identifying as that Divine Mind, it is my mind. There is no second mind. This Divine Mind is called the Infinite Father; the Spirit, without beginning or end. It is never less than Itself. It is perpetually perfect. It does not have a physical form, or physical conditions. It is free, unencumbered, as I am, for I rest in this Divine Mind. Its law is my law, its peace is my peace, its power is my power, and all that is contrary to its peace, power and harmony, is not in my being, but is a shadow of thought, an imitation, a momentary hypnosis without substance or law, and it cannot remain, for it has no real being. I can rest with that assurance that it must dissolve if it is unlike the Divine Mind. I am living in my Father's Kingdom, in true Consciousness. I am not stepping out across the white line, into the world. I remain in the Kingdom of Consciousness, and stray shadows of thought that would tempt me out, across that white line into this world, I do not respond to. I will not fall down into a sense mind, into a world of sense forms. I am remaining on my mountain top of Consciousness, even if only for a moment, to feel, to be at home where the impulse of truth can come to me. This is my Divine altar, and I have come to this place with ought against any man. I have forgiven the world, I have forgiven my self, I have forgiven all of that which is false consciousness. I am living only in the Father, accepting no place in the universe where there in ought but the Father, and I can say to the Father now, Use me I am worthy, I am a pure instrument. Now I bring my gift to the altar, now I come emptied out, completely emptied, ready to be filled with all that the Divine feels is to be my Spiritual cup. I have no desires, no needs, no wishes, other than the living Spirit. I bring no aches, no pains, no

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claims. I come as that Spirit, I come pure, I come free, I come disowning all that is unlike Spirit, knowing it is not mine. And so you are blessed, and so you shower blessings. And so, the gate of Heaven opens in your consciousness, for you are excepting only one perfect Self, and including yourself, and myself, and his self, and her self, as all that one perfect Self. You have forgiven yourself and the world, for having fallen into the belief, that there ever was a second self than the One. Now, what we did in this first half was to break the thought barrier, of cosmic thought. And the purpose of it, was to be obedient to the commandments of the Bible which say, Thy will be done. Now you see, when you are ready to do the will of the Father, you discover that you do not have the capacity in you own mind, to do that will, because your mind is not in communication with the Father. And so no matter how intelligent you may be, or how dedicated, or how eager to do the will of the Father, with your mind, you are not receiving that will, and only when you break the cosmic thought barrier, and you are in a state of Silence, where the senses are no longer active, where youre suspended in thought, taking no human thought, where you have passed the level of emotion, then the inner communication of the One, to Itself, occurs in you, as an angel of the Lord, as an impulse, as a directive, as some kind of awareness that lifts you higher than your human sense mind. And then you are also fulfilling the Lord's Prayer, which says, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed by thy name. You see, when you are in communication with the Infinite Will, you are keeping that will hallowed, first, uppermost in your consciousness, and this is how the Word becomes flesh. This is how we fulfill, not by human obedience, but by a human obedience which lifts us up, to a

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place of selflessness. And in that selflessness the Father fulfills Himself where we stand. Spirit does its own work. You turn the government of the universe, back to God out of your human mind. And you are a servant of the Lord, you are walking in the path of righteousness, you are one with the Infinite rhythm. The Father worketh, and you work hitherto. Everything is telling us that our rebirth in the Spirit depends upon, removing all sense of personal self. That the One Self may manifest Itself, in Its plan, in Its will, in Its manner as us, and then you are prepared for your journey into a life that knows no end, and not before. Now in the parable that follows Peter asking Jesus, How often shall I forgive this fellow, the Master says, Seventy times seven, and then tells him about, I think it was a landowner, who had one of his servants come and ask to be forgiven of his debts. And though he wasnt about to do it, he was going to have everything the man owned, repossessed and sold to pay the debt, but there was something about this servant which showed a desire, to please, to be honorable about it, and so the landowner took compassion and forgave him his debts. But then this fellow who had been forgiven his debts turned around and took someone to whom he was a debtor, and gave him the very identical treatment, against which he had rebelled, persecuted the fellow, and so forth, until the landowner said, you have not forgiven his debt as I have forgiven yours, and so will be now persecuted to the nth degree of the law. Now this parable is not even a difficult one to follow. We are released as we release our debtors, and the purification does not take place until you can look forth with unobstructed vision, on the creation of God, in spite of what your human eyes tell you is there. You have to break the barrier of the thought mind in yourself, and as you break it, you wonder where did my arthritis go? Where is this pain I had over 20

here? Why does there seem to be a flow of income that I hadnt suspected before? And then you realize the depth of this forgiveness. It isnt talking about your moral code at all, it's talking about the barrier that you have put up to the inflow and outflow of the Spirit of being. Spirit must flow, and it can only flow through a Spiritual Consciousness. It can only bless a Spiritual Consciousness, which is keeping Spirit uppermost. And the movement from earth to Heaven, from matter to Spirit, from material consciousness to Spiritual Consciousness, is all part of the rebirth; the Spiritual awakening which redeems all material appearances, until you have an Infinite sea of glass, the One Infinite Consciousness, with no opposite. And having released the world, from your material concepts about it, the same material concepts that have held you in bondage to pain and suffering are no longer there. Your new Consciousness must externalize as your new body, you new harmony, your new self. You see then, the power of release from problems, is the being lifted out of the concept of matter. Every problem is in matter, and Spirit never becomes matter. Spirit never becomes a material form, Spirit never became Jesus, Spirit was always the Christ form. Spirit never becomes a good material condition, or a bad material condition. Learn about this world of images and having learned the truth of it, you can enjoy it in a different way than clinging to it, than amassing bundles of it, but rather, letting the Spirit of your being, unfold your pure Consciousness, which is not out there dwelling in the forms, but in here dwelling in the Spiritual reality. This is what the meaning of forgiveness must be to all of us. Now we have natural laws, and laws of heredity, and other material concepts, but youll find that all heredity really is, is an accumulated prenatal concept, or group of concepts, by our parents, and we borrow their prenatal concepts about us, and we call it the law 21

of heredity. And then the natural laws only exist within the limited finite mind, that's the only place where theyre natural, within the mind of the natural man. But they have no basis in God, there's no law of death, there's no law of bad weather, there's no law of epidemics. These are not natural laws; these are crystallized concepts in the sense mind, crystallized concepts that pass into our consciousness, because we are unprotected against the thought of the world, not having been awakened to its presence. All world thought governs you heart, your mind, your body, your cells. There isnt an organ in your body that is self governing; each is acted upon by forces outside of itself, forces outside of your mind. But through your mind these forces enter and then govern with good and govern with bad, the organs and cells of your body. God isnt taking care of the beat of your heart at all, the world thought is. God isnt taking care of the way your lungs breath, the world thought is. And God isnt punishing you with pain and suffering because you did something that you think you shouldnt have done, world thought is, and also you didnt do what you think you did, world thought did. What we are seeing out here, is a world of images, which are completely governed by world thought, colored by our individual concepts about that world thought. Some artists have learned for example, that there is no color out there, there's no texture out there, there's no form or shape out there, that all color, texture, form, and shape, is subjective. It represents world thought, through us, expressing as color, texture, shape, form, size, and quality, it has nothing to do with God, and it has nothing to do with our personal thought. It doesnt originate in us, this world is not our original creation, it is not the Father's original creation. And as we learn to look at this world as an imitation of the Divine, we see that the cosmic mind imitating the Divine, gives us cosmic thought. And 22

cosmic thought has been defined or labeled by science, erroneously by science, as atoms; they have labeled cosmic thought as atoms, not knowing it is the thought of the cosmos. And then atoms in your consciousness, becomes your thought. And the cosmic thought accepted as atoms seen by you, becomes thought about the atoms, and this becomes the images. As you get to know and feel this progression, which is not a divine process, you become independent of it. You lift your consciousness out of this sense mind, which lives in the level of the form, so that images have power over images, sense forms have power over sense forms, and you come out of that material universe, out of that mental universe and those who do, then live in a Spiritual universe. We do not criticize those who live in mind religions, or in material ways of life, because we too have lived in those ourselves, and always the remnants of those ways are still in us, and those were step ladders, very necessary for our present level of development. We had to walk through a material universe; we had to walk through a mental universe. There had to be leaders on those levels, and if they hadnt been there, we wouldnt be here. We would have to go back to those levels and experience them. And we experienced them up to now, having put them behind us, having come to the level where we no longer live in the human mind, but in the spiritual consciousness, were then at the level which the Bible has been striving to lift us. And were now ready, to become a living Bible ourselves. Were ready to let revelation, within ourselves, lift us above the level that the Bible is at, because its level is to get us to this higher level above itself. We become living Bibles, the living Word, until we finally can walk as the Christ. You see then that a Jesus turned Christ does not read the Bible for instruction, but receives instruction from the Father within. You must make your transition, to where youre definitely living from 23

the Father within, and in that manner you will find that youre not falling into the traps of the human mind. Now let us see, that whatever discords that we may have at this moment, do not represent the creation of God, or the punishment of God, but represent world thought, which we have inadvertently permitted to enter our consciousness and to externalize as these problems. We dont have any sense of guilt about them, nor do we extend the sense of condemnation to others for their inability to prevent world thought from externalizing through them. But we see how it is done and now we come to higher ground, we rest in truth, that in Spirit, all of these opposites that we have experienced, of good health and bad health, good vision and bad vision, good hearing and bad hearing, none of these exist in my Spiritual Self, and that is the only Self I have. Hold the truth, until the lie is dissolved, and carefully, do not permit the thought of anything unlike Spiritual Truth to enter your mind. When you become conscious of it, quickly know the truth that this is not of the Father. Whatever you have in your consciousness will be found, somewhere in your experience, either in your body or your bank book, either in your relatives or your associates, in some condition concerning you. And to remove these conditions, that are unlike God, you must be still, in that consciousness which is externalizing them from the world thought. Now that should be clear to all of us. It should also be clear that your task is simplified when you know, that your Father's will is always present, being done in perfection, and if you will accept Spiritual Identity, in your consciousness, that your will and the Father's will, will be one and the same. So you wont be tempted to go out after that problem, but rather you will realize, that Jesus himself never once is recorded to have given any physical treatment to anyone on the face 24

of the earth. Not once did he go forth and prescribe, not once did he physically administer to the needs of a person. He never honored the material universe, neither did he psychologize, neither did he tell his patients, to think more positively, neither did he tell his patients they did not have this sickness, or this problem, neither did he affirm nor deny. Always, his treatment was the same, be still. He was always still; he was living in Spiritual Identity, for himself and for the patient. He was not condemning, he was not judging, he had forgiven the material universe by seeing that there wasnt any. He had forgiven the mental universe by knowing its non existence, and he did not go back into that consciousness. Now when we go out to treat people and things, if we do not follow his footsteps, we will malpractice them. We must break cosmic thought, within ourselves, that's all. There's nothing more to do, and because you cant do it at one sitting, you pray frequently in the Silence, and you pray frequently with your eyes open too. So that when youre not in the Silence praying, youre praying with your eyes open, youre praying without interruption, constantly. Without ceasing you are knowing there is no material universe, there is no mental universe, there is only my Father's Spiritual universe, and this must be your constant awareness. That is the meaning of, Pray without ceasing. When you know there is only a Spiritual universe, the sights and the sounds, the errors and the terrors, will not penetrate into your consciousness, to defile it, and what is not in your consciousness, will not appear in your experience as the problem. Now we should all advance to this point then, where we can meet the problems of the world, not by pouncing upon them, but by a consciousness of our Spiritual Identity in a Spiritual universe, and all that is not that, must be a false appearance. I dont have to affirm it out of existence, or 25

deny it out of existence. I have to know what is, and I am that Spirit of the Father and therefore all the qualities of that Spirit are mine. There's no opposite to truth, no opposite to love, no opposite to peace, no opposite to wholeness, no opposite to Self-completeness in God. I will not let my mind be distorted into the acceptance of these opposites, even if they should momentarily, should escape through my guard; I will know them for what they are. Identifying them properly, as not of God, and therefore not real, until the peace of my Consciousness in the knowledge of Spiritual Identity, and the Presence of the Father and the Power of the Father, once more, cleanses the temple. When the Peace comes, the problems go, and the Peace comes, when the mind, which is a traitor in our midst, is still. When the tyranny of the senses is stilled, My Peace comes. Divine thought externalizes as Divine harmony. Thatll tell you, youre back on beam and will keep you on the beam, until the next level of your Consciousness opens up. I have a feeling next week well explore this Eternal Fire, in conjunction with this next chapter of Joel and so until then, thank you very much.......

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